The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-12-15
MISSISSIPPI PRESS.
DIVERS OPINIONS ON CUR
RENT TOPICS TERSELY
EXPRESSED.
Pith and Point.

must De 'upnet1fS 10 ueak uUWh OuI
courts is to license murder, incite and
foster thievery.
KoscIUsKo STAR: If every body
will keep quiet few minutes, we will
suggest that Put Darden would make
first class Governor.
RIPLEY SENTINEL: The next Legis-
lature should take from the high flown
State colleges and add to the common
country schools. Will they do itH
ABERDEEN EXAMINER: CATER all,
with the single exception of the Presi-
dency, there is no position under our
form of government more desirable,
dignifed, independent and satisfying,
than a seat in the United States Sem
ate"
CLARION: As the time for the meet
ing of the Legislature draws near, we
hear less of the alleged demand of the
people that the law creating the Rail
road Commission be repealed. Like
the Inter State Commerce law, which
is now working smoothly, it is a per-
manency.
TUPEI o JOURNAL: The Republican
press of the North object to Mr.. La
mars appointment to the Supreme
Bench, principally upon the ground
that he defended ex- President Davis
on the floor of the Senate, which is
really the most creditable thing he did
during his Congressional career.
FAYETTE CHRONICLE: Some news
paper men in this State appear to
think they are magnificent lawyers,
and arrogate to themselves finer sense
ofinterpretation than the Supreme
Court. Editors will have their hands
full in running their papers. and the
Judges will hardly overburden them
ny ItSlSullIS III llltlI ldNOl'
EICKsBURG HERALD: What thrifty
farmers can accomplish in this section
of the country and what they do ac-
complish, is the best possible proof
that where tillers ofthe soil do not sue
coed, old fashion laziness is at the bot
tom of the failure. There are too ma
ny fellows who sit around the country
stores and pillow the pine boxes with
their sharp knives instead of staying
home and blowing the soil with keen
plows.
VICKsBURG HERALD: \ Govern
ment that makes it too easy for the
rich TO grow richer, and richer, and
richer, and so easy for the rich to OPP
press the poor and the laboring classes
is not as perfect as desirable. The
huge trusts, corporations and monOp-
Giles of the rich are all the style ami
they are alarming the masses. and the
sooner the Democratic party, the one
which represents the masses, puts on
a firm curb in each State and in the
United States, the better it will be for
all concerned, rich and poor.
~HATTIEsBURG COURIER: The Prohi-
bition question is now one of the most
interesting and absorbing one of the
day. The election came off again in
Atlanta Ga, on the % inst. The Pro
hibition law that carried there two
Years ago, was defeated this time by a
majority of 1144 votes. Demons may
laugh and rejoice over this now, and
Goddess, wicked men may glory in
their triumph but the elements of
their success, as they are reported, are
only so many arguments in favor of
Prohibition, and in the end will be
turned to good account.
WINoNA TINES: The presence of
Lieut.. Gov. Stands on the Conference
floor, suggests the fact, that there are
prominent men in political life in Mis-
sissippi, who are not afraid to put re-
ligious life equal with, if not little
ahead of political aspiration. This
gifted and notable layman, will make
a Church Conference as important-to
himself-as he will the General Con-
ference. He will preside over Stew
ards meeting with the same degree of
dignity as he will over the State Sen
ate. We need more of such poll
ticians as Governor Stands.
DEMOCRAT STAR: The case of the
State VS.. Jones S. Hamilton and L. NJ.
Eubanks on the charge of murder, is
now pending, by change of venue, in
the Circuit Court of Rankin county,
which court cOnvenes on the first Mon
day in February next. So far Hamil-
ton has been convicted of the charge,
in all it's seriousness and magnitude,
by one coroner's jury, one chancellor
and by the Chief Justice and one As
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court
of the State. 1t now remains for
twelve good and lawful men of Ran
kin county to say he is innocent, il
they can.